Our Building

OUR BUILDING 

St. Andrew’s is the tallest and one of the oldest buildings in the village. In 1086, at the time of the Domesday survey, the records show that there was a church in Bredfield. It may well have stood on this site. If so, it would mean that Christian worship has taken place here on this spot for over a thousand years. The Church as it is today has been much repaired and restored since the 14th Century, but there are still traces of the medieval building in the fine hammer beam roof, the remains of a rood screen, and the remnants of a holy water stoup by the blocked up south entrance . The church has an unusual Victorian East window dedicated, by his “devoted and sorrowing mother”, to her son who died aged 29. The village war memorial is located near the main entrance to the Church and is the annual focus for the village Remembrance Service.